Altogether, her fans across Canada almost certainly number in the hundreds.īut Queen Romana, as she calls herself, doesn’t always demonstrate that same loyalty to her followers.
The “mobile government,” as it’s been dubbed, can draw quite a crowd, as it did in Peterborough. Inspired by the anti-COVID trucker protests in Canada earlier this year, Didulo has been driving across the country in RVs since February, alongside a rotating cast of followers, and holding gatherings in department-store parking lots. “She is, I would say, one of the most dangerous QAnon influencers within the movement, if not the most dangerous.” She very much dehumanizes and desensitizes her audience to violence.” “Inevitable confrontation might end up becoming violent. “She is, I would say, one of the most dangerous QAnon influencers within the movement, if not the most dangerous,” Alex Mendela, an associate analyst at Alethea Group, an organization that monitors disinformation including the QAnon movement, told VICE News. Yet to her followers, she’s the ultimate defender of the weak, a harbinger of a better age. She also routinely threatens to execute her enemies-as well as anyone who disobeys her. She now claims to be an extraterrestrial spiritual leader with access to secret, New Age healing technology. But her mythos has moved far beyond typical QAnon musings and into the truly bizarre. The “queen” in question, Romana Didulo, is an internet personality who claims to be the one, true leader of Canada, waging a secret war against a cabal of pedophilic elites. The day marked a clear escalation for the so-called queen and her followers, who had never resorted to violence for their sovereign before. In the end, three people would be arrested, two of whom were charged with assaulting a police officer. Through sobs and screams, the crowd started chanting “Stand down.” As two cops grabbed the first conspiracy theorist and threw him to the ground, another follower tackled some of the officers. “Actually, you are,” a nearby cop responded.Ī melee quickly broke out. “You guys are involved in the COVID crimes, and I’m placing you under arrest,” he said. Then a car of officers pulled into the parking lot for a shift change, and the group’s leader made his move. When that didn’t work, they made their way behind the station, where they once again yelled at closed doors. They pleaded with the police through the megaphone to come outside to be arrested. Earlier in the week, she’d told her thousands of Telegram followers that the cops needed to pay for their crimes: enforcing COVID restrictions and infringing on their freedom.īut the station’s locked door promptly thwarted their quest for justice. After all, they had the backing of their queen, a figure spawned from the online QAnon movement.
“스테끼” could also refer to a card game trick which could lead the players to victory.Īlthough his unpolished opponents might look cool and play dirty, J-Hope will prevail over his opponents to relentlessly “chew them up” and win.With a megaphone in hand and dozens of other loyal subjects chattering excitedly behind him, he marched upon the Peterborough Police station. Though “스테끼” is translated as “steak,” it is also a reference to the Japanese word “素敵” which translates to “great” or “cool.” J-Hope continues to use the eating analogy here. Now, the group is eating with “gold spoons” instead of “dirt spoons.” As of 2016, the majority of the label’s ₩35.5 billion sales income can be accredited to BTS' huge success. Their music label, Big Hit Entertainment, was a small company in debt when the group debuted. This concept is similar to the English idiom “Born with a silver spoon in the mouth."īTS were known as “dirt spoon” artists. It differentiates the wealth and social status of Koreans into four types of spoon material: gold (금), silver (은), bronze (동) and soil/dirt (흙). “The Spoon Theory” is a viral/cultural concept in South Korea.